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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… equal and indifferent division of the counties for making saltpetre, with the several proportions to be supplied weekly … 4. Considerations on a proposal for making a store of saltpetre, in which the whole details of its production are … Council. Had been deputed to furnish a certain quantity of saltpetre weekly, but wanting moneys to perform so great a …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… practice during 14 years divers inventions for multiplying saltpetre, for raising water out of pits by fire, for making …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… 33. Petition of Thomas Hilliard, one of the Deputies for saltpetre, to the Lords of the Admiralty. He has many years … by his person and estate to increase the supply of saltpetre. Having been complained against, he has been …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… They consist in endeavours made to prevent the search for saltpetre, by laying soap ashes on the earth, paving cellars …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… draining coal mines. 21 Jan. " " The same; licence to make saltpetre in an open field of four acres, sufficient to serve …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… Sir Henry Palmer's demands for pay; a new commission for saltpetre; and the difference between Sir William Russell and …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… the Deputies of the Lords of the Admiralty for making saltpetre, to the same Lords. It being the pleasure of the … from adopting measures which prevent the growth of saltpetre; that owners of carriages may still be compellable to carry the saltpetre at 4 d. a mile; that the Deputies may take …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… to manufacture gunpowder for home consumption from foreign saltpetre. Jan. 27. Kinsale. 64. Sir Thos. Love to …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… his place. May 20. 73. Petition of the Deputies for making Saltpetre to the Lords of the Admiralty. About two years … contracted with the Lords of the Admiralty to furnish saltpetre for seven years, whereupon they provided utensils …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… in the answers of the defendants that some of them dug for saltpetre under the beds of persons who were sick therein; … were taken for discharge of carts commanded to carry saltpetre; that Hilliard hired horses to draw his wife's … and caused the country to carry coals for the work of saltpetre, and sold the same again to his own advantage. …